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TIL JJ Abrams was going to go to Film School but went to an academic college on his father’s advice, “it’s more important that you go off and learn what to make movies about than how to make movies.”

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y0RJ TIL The Fibonacci sequence can be used to model an amazing variety of phenomena in mathematics, science, art and nature. It can be found in computer algorithms and seen in the branching of trees, or the spirals of a conch shell or a galaxy, but no one can really explain why.
rQAy TIL in 2007, a 17 year old visiting the San Francisco Zoo provoked a Tiger enough that it leapt from its confinement and killed him
Zppa4 TIL Zeno of Citium, the founder of stoicism, wrote his own version of The Republic in response to Plato's. The work has not survived, but it depicted a stoic utopia based on the principles of asceticism.
XE86E TIL that the pain you feel from chewing on tin foil is called galvanic shock. Aluminum foil and other metals in your mouth have an electrochemical potential difference. Combined with saliva, which produces a wet, salty environment that’s ideal for the transfer of energy, creating a shock of voltage.
Me74V TIL Spiders Have Tiny Paws And It May Change The Way You Look At Them